{"49749":{"#nid":"49749","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ming Yuan Awarded NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan, assistant professor for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been named winner of the 2008-2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. Yuan received this award for his exemplary work in sparse modeling and estimation with high-dimensional data. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF offers this prestigious award as part of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Ming is one of the best statisticians of his generation,\u0022 said Jeff Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at ISyE.  \u0022He is among the few who can do deep theoretical work and significant scientific applications.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ming Yuan is the third NSF CAREER Award winner in the statistics\/quality group at the Stewart School of ISyE in the last three years. He joins the ranks of Professor Roshan Vengazhiyil, who received the award in 2006, and Professor Nagi Gebraeel, who received the award in 2007.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYuan was also named as a Distinguished Cancer Scholar from the Georgia Cancer Coalition in 2007.  He is using statistical methods with new technologies to decipher useful information that is often hidden in the variation of the data. In the study of breast cancer, he is developing novel computation and mathematical approaches using a wide variety of data sources in order to stratify breast cancer into biologically distinct types and correlate them with outcome and therapy response. Yuan has developed revolutionary bioinformatics techniques to successfully address questions related to aging and diabetes.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe also received the John van Rysin Award in 2004 from the International Biometrics Society in addition to numerous noteworthy publications. His research interests include data mining and machine learning, bioinformatics and computation biology, nonparametric and semi-parametric statistical methods, Bayesian and empirical Bayes methods, and econometrics and financial statistics. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EYuan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Information Science and an M.S. in Probability and Statistics and Computer Science; he earned his Ph.D. in Statistics at University of Wisconsin.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ming Yuan, assistant professor for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been named winner of the NSF CAREER Award.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ming Yuan Awarded NSF Career Award"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2009-12-02 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49750":{"id":"49750","type":"image","title":"Ming Yuan","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"Ming Yuan","file":{"fid":"127060","name":"tui69843.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tui69843_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tui69843_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24165,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tui69843_0.jpg?itok=Zn0cBPvX"}}},"media_ids":["49750"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"6107","name":"Ming Yuan"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"},{"id":"167169","name":"statistics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}